"She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

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talk(Noun)

A conversation or discussion.

We need to have a talk about your homework.

talk(Noun)

A lecture.

There's a talk about Shakespeare on tonight.

talk(Noun)

(After the) A major topic of social discussion.

talk(Noun)

(Without an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.

The party leader's speech was all talk.

talk(Verb)

To communicate, usually by means of speech.

Although I don't speak Chinese I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.

talk(Verb)

To discuss.

talk(Verb)

Confess, especially implicating others.

Suppose he talks? She can be relied upon not to talk. They tried to make me talk.

talk(Verb)

Criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

I am not the one to talk. She is a fine one to talk. You should talk. Look who's talking.

talk(Verb)

Gossip; create scandal.

People will talk. Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?

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Talk(noun)

to utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts

Talk(noun)

to confer; to reason; to consult

Talk(noun)

to prate; to speak impertinently

Talk(verb)

to speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French

Talk(verb)

to deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics

Talk(verb)

to consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening

Talk(verb)

to cause to be or become by talking

Talk(noun)

the act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more

Talk(noun)

report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war

Talk(noun)

subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town

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Talk

Talk was an American magazine published from 1999 to 2001.
When it was launched as a joint venture between Miramax and Hearst Publishing, under the editorship of Tina Brown, it generated notoriety for its celebrity profiles and interviews. The cover story of the debut issue was an interview with Hillary Clinton, which took place shortly after the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, in which she explained that her husband Bill Clinton had a chronic need to please women. However, the magazine never became a commercial success, and was shut down in 2002.

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Talk

tawk, v.i. to speak familiarly: to prattle: to reason.—n. familiar conversation: that which is uttered in familiar intercourse: subject of discourse: rumour.—adjs.Talk′able, capable of talking, or of being talked about; Talk′ative, given to much talking: prating.—adv.Talk′atively.—ns.Talk′ativeness; Talk′ee-talk′ee, a corrupt dialect: incessant chatter—also adj.Talk′y-talk′y.—n.Talk′er.—adj.Talk′ing, given to talking.—Talk against time, to keep on talking merely to fill up time, as often in parliament: Talk big, to talk boastfully; Talk down, to argue down; Talk from the point, to wander away from the proper question; Talk Greek, to talk above the understanding of one's hearers; Talking of, apropos of, with regard to; Talk over, to persuade, convince: to discuss, consider together; Talk round, to exhaust the subject: to bring to one's way of thinking by persuasive talk; Talk shop (see Shop); Talk to, to address: to rebuke; Talk up, to speak impudently or boldly to. [Prof. Skeat takes the M. E. talken from Scand., and that from Lithuanian; Sw. tolka (Ice. túlka), to interpret—Lith. tulkas, an interpreter. Prob., however, the M. E. talken is talen, talien, to speak, with formative -k, giving a freq. or dim. force; cf. Tale.]

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talk

To open and close the mouth rapidly while the bellows in the throat pumps out the gas in the brain.